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The powers that be actually said that feelings trump grammar.
I don't see this ending well.
I don't envy you having to enforce this.
Of course, I will not allow myself to be forced to submit to ...
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Why was nothing done about this racial stereotype?
The post wasn't flagged (except once to request comment cleanup). I'm guessing that the moderator who handled the comments focused on the many comments (there are currently 47 deleted ones), in ...
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I think there's going to be a lot of confusion and mistakes.
The kind and reasonable thing to do is to comply with whatever pronouns a person wants to use. Unfortunately, there's not enough nuance in ...
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Is calling someone naive allowed?
The text you quote is fairly clear to me: "Focus on the content, not the person". Any statement that amounts to "You are X" when X is a negative quality is rarely going to be a ...
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Is calling someone naive allowed?
Calling someone 'naive' would likely be misconstrued as insulting. This answer to May I use “naive” to mean “inexperienced”? on the English Language Learners stack explains:
Naive (adjective) or ...
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Updates to the Code of Conduct
The purpose of the changes to CoC is to make the SE more welcoming to everyone. That's how SE is explaining the change. Great intent! However, the spirit and the wording of the new CoC and FAQ raise a ...
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Q17: What should I do if I think someone requests me to use a certain
pronoun in bad faith? From @Cesar M(Staff)
If people are requesting things in bad faith, you are welcome to
escalate to ...
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Updates to the Code of Conduct
My reply to the FAQ on the Meta site
Official FAQ on gender pronouns and Code of Conduct changes
I tried to keep it to the point
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